Suggestions on disposing of a collection of jazz vinyl

You may check on Discogs every album and edition you have. There are data about the each sale, date and price of any particular album sold there. That will help you to form the price of every album you have. Of course you can compare the prices with other albums that are on sale there now. So, you, or the lady in question may try to sell them there.Its more time consuming, but you will probably get the best price there, even more if you have some rare editions. The Discogs is followed all around the world, both by sellers and buyers. Best of luck

Hi,

Mazzy is a good suggestion.

I would also be willing to help. Along with a colleague I recently assisted a collector in triaging a 100,000 LP collection (the former vinyl holdings of Voice of America), extracting a sub-inventory of valuable and collectible jazz from what was a multi-genre inventory. He was seeking to keep that and dispose of the rest in appropriate sales and donations, as not all the collection had meaningful resale value.
 

I am based in Victoria, BC and run a YouTube channel (Ten-Minute Record Reviews) principally concerned with jazz record collecting. My own jazz collection is approximately 1500 LPs, principally early pressings. Would be happy to have a Zoom call to learn more and offer you what advice I can. Reply here or send me a message if interested. 
 

Allan
 

PS I should have added I am not a dealer or seeking to be a buyer — but I empathize with the situation and would like to see you make smart choices. 

Did her husband have a Discog account?

I inherited 4,000 lps, and already had 2,500, already too many. That’s about 80 lf, 27 three ft shelves. I already had shelves for the 2500, I quickly bought 10 rolling racks of tall shelving, to stack stuff and lps to near the ceiling: the garage is a total mess still.

I quickly sorted the inherited into 2 piles, keep or go, and I mean quickly, out of the box: two piles.

First, I asked friends to come by and take whatever they wanted from the ’to go’ shelves.

Next, I found and had 3 good record stores come here, and give me a price. None wanted them all, so I ended up selling 700 to this one, 1,000 to that one, 400 to the 3rd. 

I mailed 100 each to 2 nephews on the west coast who recently got into Vinyl.

I kept two rows, 9 lf each, just above and below eye level, easy to see and pick/replace, alphabetical, if I buy, it's 1 in, two out, that's it, and I want to weed them to what I realistically will listen to.

I had my son pick 50 lps from my 18lf for his 50th Birthday, and picked a dozen each for my two granddaughters (his kids).

I just gave 7lf of remaining unwanted LPs to a friend to give to his wife’s women’s group annual auction. Get em outta here!

That all took 4-1/2 years.

Lastly, I need to go thru the many classical that NOBODY wants, pick some to keep and get RID of the rest. (well, Steve at VAS came by to hear a cartridge he rebuilt on my system and I nearly begged him to take some classical, he bought 50. He’s the only one that would even take any).

The money didn’t make any damn difference, I should have made the record stores take them all or none, free, just get me some shelf space to get the garage back in order.

A good home? Unless you know for sure, people might lie to you and re-sell them, does it matter? 

I don’t save books anymore, it’s hard to give them away. Nobody reads!